The game? Express your tech horror in five words or less. As the guy who has served as the de facto IT department for his family, high school, a small law firm, and more, reading these tweets is giving me flashbacks.

Here are the ones you'll be most likely to encounter. Prepare accordingly.

How do people fail? Let us count the ways: writing passwords on sticky notes, using "password" or "12345," or using the same password for every single site or service.

If you can't remember 387 distinct passwords (with sp3ci@l characters!), consider using a password manager. The New York Times has a few recommendations.

And if, like me, you're too paranoid to give a single app all of your passwords and credit card details, we busted password myths and provided tips earlier this year for devising strong and easy to remember passwords.

This one hurts. In my time at a small firm in Los Angeles, I encountered the most annoying virus ever: a fake antivirus virus. It tricked users into installing faux antivirus software that slowed the computers to a crawl and prevented them from going online.

The only solution? Wipe the hard drives after backing up files. Each PC took hours.

Stick with a known antivirus provider. My personal favorite is Microsoft Security Essentials (if you are on Windows). It's free, it does the job, and oh yeah, it's free.

Internet Explorer. For the past decade, it has been the slowest and least reliable of all web browsers. It maintains its market share because it is bundled with Windows. The new versions are greatly improved, but lag greatly behind Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Alas, rarely, some sites work better on IE, especially, for some reason, government and court sites. Our advice? Use IE only when needed.

Does your site provide an easy way for clients to contact you immediately, such as chat or a "call us" button? (Conversion matters above all else.) Your nephew means well, but go with the pros. And we're not just saying that because we're the best at online lawyer marketing (though yes, we are pretty amazing).